Pencil-holder pocket.



F.. A. WEEKS. PENCIL HOLDER. POCKET. APPLIGATION FILED MAY 2s, 1909.

965,669, 4 Patented Ju1y26,1910.

FREDERICK A. WEEKS, OF MACEDON, NEW YORK.`

PENCIL-HOLDER roei/infr.

Specification of Letters Patent. t Patented July 26, 1910.

Application filed May 26, 1909. Serial No. 498,543.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. lVnnKs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Macedon, in the county of TWayne and State of New York, have invented new andvuseful Improvements in Pencil-Holder Pockets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pencil holders and the object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which can be constructed cheaply from a single piece of spring wire, and to provide novel and ef fective means whereby the holder can be held within a pocket, and to further provide elastic means engaged with portions of the holder and adapted to be disposed within the pocket so that pencils, pens or like articles can be inserted in the pocket and held between the walls thereof and portions of the said elastic element and effectively held against casual displacement by their engagement with said elastic element.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent as the nature of the invention is better disclosed and it will be understood that changes within the specific scope of the claims can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings forming a portion of this specification, Figure l is a side elevation of the pencil holder. Fig. 2 is a top plan view. Fig. 3 is a detail horizontal section taken on the line 3-3 Fig. 1.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings it will be seen that my improved pencil holder consists chiefly of a single piece of metal, such asresilient wire or the like which is bent to form a pair of spaced legs or arms 1 which are somewhat of arcuate form and are provided at their lower extremities with coiled portions 2 which are directed into a connecting portion 3. This construction is such that the arms or legs 1 normally tend to separate from each other. The upper extremities of the arms or legs are bent approximately in loop form as shown at Il, and the terminal ends of the wire forming the loops are extended in opposite directions and are sharpened to form pocket engaging spurs 5 adapted to be rought into engagement with the end walls of the pocket with which the holder is engaged. The loops 4t herein shown and described are not absolutely essential in the` construction of the holder but are principally employed for the reason of the fact that they serve as retainers which may be formed from the same material of which the holder is constructed. As shown the loops or retainers receive the end portions of an elastic band 6 which is shown as being provided with longitudinally extending portions 7 which in practice are adapted to be disposed between the front and rear walls of the pocket and arranged to present broad frictional bearing faces for a purpose to be hereinafter more fully disclosed. The holder is also provided with an elastic element 8 which may be a rubber band or the like, and which as shown has its end portions engaged with the retainers or loops 1l. The elastic band or element 8 is twisted longitudinally as clearly shown in Fig. 2 and is adapted to have portions engaged with the inner faces of the portions 7 of the band or element 6 so as to force said portions away from each other and toward the front and rear walls of the pocket with which the holder is engaged. Adjacent to the outer ends, the spurs formed by the loops t are provided with depressions or concavities 9 in which the legs or arms 1 are adapted to be seated. i

In practice the holder is inserted within the pocket and the arms and legs 1 which normally tend to move from each other will be moved to such position as will permit the spurs 5 to be engaged with the end walls of the pocket so as to retain the holder within the pocket and to prevent the same from becoming casually dislodged. After the holder has been thus inserted within the pocket it ,will be obvious that the portions 7 are disposed between the front and rear walls of the pocket. Upon inserting pencils, pens or like articles within a pocket with which the holder described is engaged it will be seen that such articles may be inserted between the front or rear wall of the pocket and between the side portions 7 of the band 6 showing that the outer faces of the said portions frictionally engage the articles in such manner as will retain them within the pocket and hold them against casual displacement. As stated the band 8 when in its operative position lies between the portions 7 of the band 6 and the said band 8 broadly may be termed an expansion means adapted to force the side portions 7 outward and effectively into engagement with the front and rear walls of the,p`ocket.

Y tween the l. A pencil holder comprising a member formed from a single length of wire bent to form a pair of spaced arms whose lower extremities are coiled and connected with a longitudinally extending connecting portion, an elastic band engaged with the said arms, and a second elastic band engaged `with the said arms and twisted throughout within a pocket and provided with an elastic element having' parallel portions and expansion means disposed between the par allel portions of said element.

4. A pencil holder formed from a single piece of wire bent to form spring coils, arms arising from said coils, said arms hav ing portions bent to form pocket engaging spurs, an elastic element carried by the arms and provided with a pair of parallel portions and an elastic expansible element carried by the arms and disposed between the parallel portions of the first named element and adapted for engagement therewith to force them from each other.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK A. VEEKS.

fitnesses JOHN S. SGHOENBRUN, HUGH DOUGLAS. 

